Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in developing targets, leading change management and developing strategic sourcing strategies for more than one acquisition category for a retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer, or a services company with annual sales in excess of $5 billion.
- Experiences in managing category spend in excess of $1B across multiple acquisition categories.
- At least 10 years' experience applying procurement practices / strategies focused on meeting the business challenges, P&L needs, and the needs of the organization with a minimum of 7 years' experience developing and implementing requirements / change management methodologies to execute strategic sourcing activities.
- At least 5 years' experience developing and implementing requirements to execute and enhance day to day sourcing activities.
Must have budgetary management experience and / or P&L management experience.
- Knowledge of the strategic sourcing procurement lifecycle and procurement best practices and methods.
- Experience communicating both verbally (on phone, one-on-one, to groups) and in writing (emails, letters, reports, presentations) to various audiences (work group, team, company management, prospective acquisitions, external clients).
- Experience interacting, collaborating and presenting to senior level executives.
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example : using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and / or print scaling).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example : applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and / or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example : inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and / or adjusting table columns)
- At least 5 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
- At least 5 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and / or cross- functional team leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or other advanced degree or equivalent experience
- Strong leadership experience in technology procurement (software, IT infrastructure, and IT services) and marketing procurement
- Demonstrated history of responsibility growth, preferably through advancement within an organization
Salary Range $180500 - $306700 / Salaried
12 days ago